Celebrated fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies at 88 – National | 24CA News
Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born designer identified for perfumes offered worldwide and his metallic, space-age fashions, has died, the group that owns his vogue home introduced on its web site Friday.
“The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honor our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. Among the most seminal fashion figures of the 20th century, his legacy will remain,” the assertion from magnificence and vogue firm Puig mentioned.
Le Telegramme newspaper quoted the mayor of Vannes, David Robo, as saying that Rabanne died at his house within the Brittany area city of Portsall.
Rabanne’s vogue home reveals its collections in Paris and is scheduled to unveil the model’s newest ready-to-wear designs in the course of the upcoming Feb. 27-March 3 vogue week.
He was often called a insurgent designer in a profession that blossomed together with his collaboration with the family-owned Puig, a Spanish firm that now additionally owns different design homes, together with Nina Ricci, Jean Paul Gaultier, Caroline Herrera and Dries Van Noten. The firm additionally owns the perfume manufacturers Byredo and Penhaligon’s.
“Paco Rabanne made transgression magnetic. Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women (to) clamour for dresses made of plastic and metal? Who but Paco Rabanne could imagine a fragrance called Calandre — the word means ‘automobile grill,’ you know — and turn it into an icon of modern femininity?” the group’s assertion mentioned.
Calandre fragrance was launched in 1969, the primary product by Puig in Spain, France and the United States, based on the corporate.
Born Francisco Rabaneda y Cuervo in 1934, the long run designer fled the Spanish Basque nation at age 5 in the course of the Spanish Civil War and took the identify of Paco Rabanne.
He studied structure at Paris’ Beaux Arts Academie earlier than shifting to couture, following in within the steps of his mom, who was a couturier in Spain. He mentioned she was jailed at one level for being wearing a “scandalous” vogue.
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He offered equipment to well-known designers earlier than launching his personal assortment.
He titled the primary assortment offered below his personal identify “12 unwearable dresses in contemporary materials.” His revolutionary outfits have been made of varied sorts of metallic, together with his well-known use of mail, the chain-like materials related to Medieval knights.
Coco Chanel reportedly referred to as Rabanne “the metallurgist of fashion.”
“My colleagues tell me I am not a couturier but an artisan, and it’s true that I’m an artisan. … I work with my hands,” he mentioned in interview within the Nineteen Seventies.
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In an interview given when he was 43 years outdated and now held in France’s National Audiovisual Institute, Rabanne defined his radical vogue philosophy,
“I think fashion is prophetic. Fashion announces the future,” he mentioned, including that ladies have been harbingers of what lies on the horizon.
“When hair balloons, regimes fall,” Rabanne mentioned. “When hair is smooth, all is well.”
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